United States v. Moro-Hernandez

[NOT FOR PUBLICATION--NOT TO BE CITED AS PRECEDENT] United States Court of Appeals For the First Circuit No. 98-1713 UNITED STATES, Appellee, v. LUIS MORO-HERNANDEZ, Defendant, Appellant. APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO [Hon. Daniel R. Domnguez, U.S. District Judge] Before Stahl, Circuit Judge, Coffin, Senior Circuit Judge, and Lipez, Circuit Judge. Edgar R. Vega Pabon on brief for appellant. Guillermo Gil, United States Attorney, Jose A. Quiles- Espinosa, Senior Litigation Counsel, and Camille Velez-Rive, Assistant United States Attorney, on brief for appellee. October 19, 1998 Per Curiam. Upon careful review of the briefs and record, we conclude that the district court properly interpreted U.S.S.G. 4A1.1(d) in calculating defendant's criminal history category. Defendant's prior diversionary disposition was properly "counted as a sentence" under 4A1.2(f). It follows that the diversionary disposition was "a sentence countable under 4A1.2." Therefore the diversionary disposition was a "criminal justice sentence" for purposes of 4A1.1(d), application note 4. We find no merit in defendant's argument that the plain words of the application note should be read otherwise. And because the instant offense was committed while defendant was under that diversionary disposition, the district court properly applied 4A1.1(d) to add two points to defendant's criminal history score. Affirmed. See 1st Cir. Loc. R. 27.1.